Best Pacing Apps for ME/CFS: Facts Compared
A pacing app should record activity, rest and symptoms with little effort, and fit your energy. Facts from each app's own pages.
What each app lists
- Visible: The app is free to download, and the Visible band is sold on subscription. App Store and Google Play. English. Measures heart rate and its variability on waking with the phone camera, symptom, medicine and effort journal, reports for doctors. Long covid, ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS, Ehlers-Danlos. (source, read 03/11/2026)
- Bearable: Free, with an optional subscription of 34.99 dollars shown on its website (7-day trial). iOS and Android. Customisable tracking of symptoms, mood, medicines and habits, more than 30 reports, reminders, data export and a PIN code. Made for any chronic health condition. (source, read 03/11/2026)
- CareClinic: Free version with core features. iOS, Android, Apple Watch, macOS, web. Interface shown in English. Tracks symptoms, medicines, vitals and habits with reminders, trends and shareable reports. Pages for many conditions. (source, read 03/11/2026)
- Mima: iOS and Android. You speak or write in the app, and Mima organises what you say into observations. It remembers what you told it and proposes links between symptoms and habits that you can confirm, reject or edit. It keeps a list of questions for your doctor, gives you a summary to share on a web page, lets you attach files, and is not limited to cancer. Built with patients and doctors. It is free to start, with an optional premium plan. You can use it without uploading any document, and you can start without an account: open the app and talk to Mima right away, with no email or phone number. The app is available in 12 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi and Bengali.
How to choose
- Decide what you need most: a record for your appointments, a community, answers to questions, or a diary.
- Check the price, the platform and the language on the app's own page.
- Read what it asks of you at sign-up, and what it does with your documents.
- Try it for a week. Keep it if you still open it.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best pacing app for ME/CFS?
Compare the facts, and pick one that takes little effort to use.
Do I need a wearable?
Not necessarily. Some apps use the phone camera or a band.
What should I record?
See the ME/CFS pacing diary.
For information only, not medical advice. For information only, not medical advice.